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  • Great! I just tiled a part of my basement (first time doing tiles) because we replace the hot water tank with a tankless.

    Since it mounts on the wall I had to remove the old cracked tiles under the tank and put in new ones. It was pretty straightforward but I found wiping the grout to be really messy and not as easy as it seemed in the videos. Using the tile saw as also daunting but I got it done.

  • Based on the fine rates from GTA - each camera needs to catch 6 people a day to break even (about $120 a ticket).

    At first it’ll be a great source of revenue but people will learn and slow down - then the ROI will be questionable…

  • My parents have a NAS! Maybe I set up Tailscale and send it over there…

    Although they live 3 streets away from me so I worry it’s not remote enough in case of flood etc

  • Honestly, I just run it from the CLI myself.

    I’ve wasted too much time fighting with CI and automation that when I migrated to forjego I didn’t bother to put it in again.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    ch8zer @lemmy.ca

    Backing up IaC

    Hi all, I have my home lab set up as a single git repo. I’ve got all infrastructure as opentofu / ansible configs, and using git crypt to protect secret files (tofu state, ansible secret values, etc).

    How would you back up such a system? Keeping it on my self hosted git creates a circular dependency. I’m hesitant to use a private codeberg repo in case I leak secrets. Just wondering what the rest of you are doing.

  • You could try something S3 based, and do backups by date?

    For example, export a subset of the DB and name it accordingly (ie. 2025-04-to-2025-01.tar).

    If you do that there are a lot of pretty cheap S3 providers (like Wasabi).

    S3 interfaces nicely with RCLONE so you can move providers etc and pull it really quickly.

    As an aside, when I looked into something like this the thing that made me hesitate was the time and cost for retrieval from cold storage (like amazon glacier) outweighed the savings.

  • Synology seems to be the go to brand for most folks. They have a solid OS and take their security pretty seriously.

    If you want to have more fun you could grab a small x86 NAS (ugreen/terramaster) and flash it with truenas.

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
    ch8zer @lemmy.ca

    Wrecked ceiling wall, how to fix

    I wrecked the ceiling/ wall bringing down a sofa. I’m a new home owner so not sure how to fix this. I have the paint since we repainted everything.

    Not sure if I should use the pink stuff or something else. Any suggestions?

    EDIT - Thanks all for the advice and suggestions. I was able to rebuild the corner using spackle and have sanded it. I put on the first coat of paint and am quite confident this will look as if there were no damage at all.

  • I think the key is you need to find FOSS software that works for you before migrating your OS. Most FOSS software will run on windows and sometimes MAC.

    1-2 and 3 will be hard. You can find many tools that do something similar but it won’t be perfect. There are a few different music managers, and for office libreoffice is the go to.

    1. try digikam, it supports all OSes
    2. googling “Fujitsu snap scanner Linux” yielded a few blog articles on the matter. Seems it should be supported.
  • What’s your goal? Is it safe to match is a very open ended question.

    Take RHEL, it’s meant to be a paid distro for enterprise, something Debian isn’t. But you could draw similarities too.

    What’s are you trying to learn?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
    ch8zer @lemmy.ca

    Self Host Intranet Email

    Hi all, I am in the process of setting up authentik and had the thought of setting up an intranet email for it.

    The idea is that I could set up a very simple email server and client that would only work on my home network to manage email notifications, passwords, etc from all my self hosted applications (proxmox, gitea, etc). It wouldn’t need to communicate with the outside world, only users of my intranet.

    Have you done something like this? Any particular tools or advice?

    I know about other options like the proton SMTP bridge but this seemed more fun!